The GIRLS star, writer and creator is in hot water after making a series of tone-deaf remarks about New York Giants football player Odell Beckham Jr. in her most recent e-mail newsletter, Lenny Letter.

In a conversation she had with comedian Amy Schumer about her experience sitting at the same table with Beckham Jr. at the Met Gala in May, Dunham recounted how she felt unattractive and rejected by the NFL star.

"[It] was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.' It wasn't mean—he just seemed confused," she wrote.

"The vibe was very much like, 'Do I want to fuck it? Is it wearing a... yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to go back to my cell phone.' It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie," Dunham added. "I was like, 'This should be called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes.'"

On Friday night (September 2), Dunham posted a series of tweets in an effort to defend her statements in Lenny Letter.

".@OBJ_3 is talented, stylish, seems super awesome and wasn't into chatting with me at a fancy party," she tweeted.

"My story about him was clearly (to me) about my own insecurities as an average-bodied woman at a table of supermodels & athletes. It's not an assumption about who he is or an expectation of sexual attention. It's my sense of humor, which has kept me alive for 30 years. Glad the outrage machine roars on though, right @amyschumer?" Dunham added in additional tweets, seemingly failing to grasp why what she had said was upsetting and problematic.

After receiving another round of backlash, on Saturday (September 3) the actress posted a lengthy apology to Instagram and Twitter, and tried to clarify her comments once and for all.

"I owe Odell Beckham Jr an apology. Despite my moments of bravado, I struggle at industry events (and in life) with the sense that I don't rep a certain standard of beauty and so when I show up to the Met Ball surrounded by models and swan-like actresses it's hard not to feel like a sack of flaming garbage," she wrote.

"This felt especially intense with a handsome athlete as my dinner companion and a bunch of women I was sure he'd rather be seated with. But I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts... But most importantly, I would never intentionally contribute to a long and often violent history of the over-sexualization of black male bodies—as well as false accusations by white women towards black men," Dunham added.

Read her full statement below:

I owe Odell Beckham Jr an apology. Despite my moments of bravado, I struggle at industry events (and in life) with the sense that I don't rep a certain standard of beauty and so when I show up to the Met Ball surrounded by models and swan-like actresses it's hard not to feel like a sack of flaming garbage. This felt especially intense with a handsome athlete as my dinner companion and a bunch of women I was sure he'd rather be seated with. But I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts. I feel terrible about it. Because after listening to lots of valid criticism, I see how unfair it is to ascribe misogynistic thoughts to someone I don't know AT ALL. Like, we have never met, I have no idea the kind of day he's having or what his truth is. But most importantly, I would never intentionally contribute to a long and often violent history of the over-sexualization of black male bodies- as well as false accusations by white women towards black men. I'm so sorry, particularly to OBJ, who has every right to be on his cell phone. The fact is I don't know about his state of mind (I don't know a lot of things) and I shouldn't have acted like I did. Much love and thanks, Lena